Missouri Withdrawal Happening Today
October 28th, 2011 12:11 PM║ Posted By: John Pennington ║ Permalink ║ Tags: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt
Multiple sources are claiming that Missouri will withdraw from the Big 12 today. It is also being reported that the Big 12 is working out a release agreement with MU brass that would allow the Tigers to jet by 2012.
Also telling is the Big 12′s press release regarding the addition of West Virginia. The league announced a 10-school roster for 2012 with WVU in and Mizzou out.
Our sources told us last week that the deal would be done this week with Missouri entering the SEC in 2012 as a member of the SEC East. Through all the ups and downs of the past seven days, it seems that that will finally come to fruition today.
So what happened to speed things up? Have the ACC, Big East, Big 12 and SEC bosses gotten together and worked out an agreement that fits all?
Or is West Virginia simply telling the Big East to talk to the hand, they’re gone despite all of John Marinatto’s 2014 talk?
Is it possible that last night’s accidental web posting by the SEC actually helped to speed things up a bit?
Or was an agreement worked out last evening… which led to the error on the web in the first place?
We’ll find out over the next few hours and days, but for now it appears our long national nightmare is over. (Tip of the hat to Richard Nixon.)
Missouri and Texas A&M are the SEC’s newest members and an official announcement should come soon.
A 14 team SEC schedule is MUCH better than a 13 team schedule, even if only for one year.
And in 4-5 years, when the SEC Network is fully up and running and in households from Houston to Nashville to Atlanta to St. Louis, SEC members will be financially competitive with everyone in America–as we should be.
Financially competitive? The SEC Network is going to make it rain cash on its member schools. The SEC now has the largest populated footprint of any major conference in the country with the most passionate fanbase.
Hooray! This is a very happy day for a Mizzou fan.
Good luck in the B12 WV, but I wouldn't expect any more BCS bowls in your immediate future. The B12 is big boy football. SEC is big and fast boy football.
Don't see any BCS bows in your future either! So, good luck to you, too!
Now time for the Big East to go away. PLEASE, PLEASE, go away!! Not anything against the individual schools, but such a terrible model with part-time members spread all across the US.
I wish it would just revert back to being a basketball conference.
Now on to more important questions…who will be #15 and #16? Adding one school in the state of NC and one school in the state of VA would basically round things out geographically, giving the SEC a presence in every state in the southeast quadrant of the country. Assuming UNC and UVA are not possible, what are the chances of bringing in NC State and VaTech?
FINALLY!!! WE HAVE OUR FREEDOM!!!
Historic day for Mizzou and its fans. As A&M's Loftin put it, this is not a 1 year or even 5 year decision – this is a 100 year decision, and we can't be more exited to be a part of the SEC family for the next century and beyond.
As a Mizzou alum (originally from Bama, with lots of family still down there), I am absolutely elated and flattered that we're joining the best college football conference in the country.
MIZ….SEC!